Sources in European Political History: Volume 2: Diplomacy and International Affairs

202 Pages·1989·16.779 MB·English

by  Chris Cook, Tim Kirk, Bob Moore (auth.)

SOURCES IN EUROPEAN POLITICAL HISTORY
Volume 2: DIPLOMACY AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
Also by Chris Cook
*SOURCES IN EUROPEAN POLITICAL HISTORY, Volume 1: THE
EUROPEAN LEFT (with Geoff Pugh)
*SOURCES IN EUROPEAN POLITICAL HISTORY, Volume 3: WAR
AND RESISTANCE (forthcoming, with Tim Kirk and Bob Moore)
*SOURCES IN BRITISH POLITICAL HISTORY, 1900-1951 (6 vols)
(with Philip Jones, Josephine Sinclair and Jeffrey Weeks)
*THE AGE OF ALIGNMENT: Electoral Politics in Britain, 1922-29
*A SHORT HISTORY OF THE LIBERAL PARTY, 190(}-88
THE SLUMP (with John Stevenson)
*BY-ELECTIONS IN BRITISH POLITICS (with John Ramsden)
*BRITISH HISTORICAL FACTS, 176(}-1830 (with John Stevenson)
*EUROPEAN POLITICAL FACTS, 1789-1848 (with John Paxton)
*EUROPEAN POLITICAL FACTS, 1848-1918 (with John Paxton)
*EUROPEAN POLITICAL FACTS, 1918-1984 (with John Paxton)
THE LONGMAN ATLAS OF MODERN BRITISH HISTORY,
170(}-1970 (with John Stevenson)
*THE POLITICS OF REAPPRAISAL, 1918-39 (with Gillian Peele)
*THE DECADE OF DISILLUSION (ed. with David McKie)
*CRISIS AND CONTROVERSY: Essays in Honour of A. J. P. Taylor
(with Alan Sked)
POST-WAR BRITAIN: A Political History (with Alan Sked)
THE LONGMAN HANDBOOK OF MODERN BRITISH HISTORY,
1714--1987 (with John Stevenson)
THE LABOUR PARTY (ed. with Ian Taylor)
TRADE UNIONS IN BRITISH POLITICS (ed. with Ben Pimlott)
Also by Bob Moore
REFUGEES FROM NAZI GERMANY IN THE NETHERLANDS,
1933--40
*Also published by Macmillan
SOURCES IN EUROPEAN
POLITICAL HISTORY
Volume 2
Diplomacy and International Affairs
Chris Cook
Head of Department in the Faculty of Humanities,
Polytechnic of North London
with
Tim Kirk
Lecturer in History, University of Warwick
and
Bob Moore
Lecturer in History, Bristol Polytechnic
M
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Sources in European political history.
Vol. 2: Diplomacy and international
affairs.
I. Europe. Political events, 1848-1985.
Historical sources: Archives-Lists
I. Cook, Chris, 1945- II. Kirk, Tim, 1958
III. Moore, Bob, 1954-
016.9402'8
ISBN 978-1-349-05100-7 ISBN 978-1-349-05098-7 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-05098-7
CONTENTS
Preface and Acknowledgements vii
Introduction IX
List of Abbreviations xi
Note on Sources Cited Xll
Alphabetical List of Personal Papers xi
Appendix Select Bibliographical Note 190
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
A very large number of people helped in the preparation of this volume. Whilst it would
be impossible to thank all by name, certain special acknowledgements must be made. An
extremely deep debt of gratitude is due to the many scores of archivists and librarians
who responded so readily and so helpfully to the letters and questionnaires sent out
during the compilation of this volume.
The compilation of the first two volumes in the Sources in European Political History
series has taken the compilers to archive centres in many parts of Europe. Particular
thanks must be given to our colleagues in Vienna, namely Dr Elizabeth Springer of the
Haus-Hof- und Staatsarchiv; Dr Elizabeth Klamper and Dr Siegwald Ganglmeier; Dr
Eva Irblich and Dr Gerhard Renner of the Austrian National Library; the staff of the
Verein fiir Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung; and Dr Mikoletzky of the Allgemeines
Verwaltungsarchiv. At the Bundesarchiv, Koblenz, the project's thanks are due to the
Director and his staff, in particular to Dr Werner Krause, who gave most generously of
his time and made available unpublished material on the holdings of the archive. For her
work on the project in Brussels, grateful thanks go to Ms Marie Bittlestone. The staff of
the League of Nations Archive in Geneva gave generously of their time. Professor Paul
Preston gave very useful information on archives in Spain. In London, particular thanks
are due to the staff of the German Historical Institute and the Sikorski Institute and
Polish Museum. Among personal friends and colleagues who have given practical
assistance thanks are due to Chris Lee, Angela Raspin, Julia Sheppard and Richard
Storey.
A very major debt is due to the Polytechnic of North London for facilitating the
production of this volume. The initial research assistance was made available by the
allocation of funds by the Polytechnic. The granting of a one-year secondment from my
normal duties during the 1986--87 academic year by the Director of the Polytechnic made
the early work on this volume possible. I must record my thanks for the support of the
subsequent Director, Leslie Wagner, and the Dean, Sandra Ashman, for their help seeing
this volume through to completion.
A wide variety of sources, published and unpublished, have been used in the
compilation of this volume. A more detailed listing is given in the Select Bibliographical
Note (Appendix I). A very special mention must be made, however, of the absolutely
invaluable guide for Germany produced by Professor Mommsen. No words of praise can
do justice to the value of this monumental work. Although this volume includes known
additions and changes to that of Professor Mommsen, its debt to that pioneering volume
remains very high. Similarly, the guide on the papers of French politicians has been
invaluable.
The paucity of existing published guides to European archives only serves to re
emphasise the debt owed to the scores of archivists who so readily cooperated in the
production of this volume.
Finally, three remaining acknowledgements are needed. In London, my thanks are due
to my publishing editor Tim Farmiloe for his help and support in seeing this volume
through to publication. In Amsterdam, where the original idea for this series was born,
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my debt is a wider one. It is to all those friends and colleagues who made successive visits
to that delightful city so pleasant. And, to my co-authors Tim Kirk and Bob Moore, my
very deep thanks for the many hours of labour, as well as good company, that went into
this volume.
Polytechnic of North London CHRIS COOK
Vlll
INTRODUCTION
This is the second volume in the planned series of Sources in European Political History.
The first volume aimed to provide an outline guide to the surviving personal papers of
over 1000 individuals active in the socialist, labour, radical and revolutionary move
ments in Europe. 1 The period covered was broadly from 1870 through to the end of the
Second World War in 1945. This second volume aims to provide a similar guide to the
private papers of a further 1000 individuals active in European diplomacy and
international affairs over a similar chronological period. The scope of the volume
embraces not only statesmen and ministers, but diplomats, ambassadors and the many
others involved in the formulation and implementation of foreign policy.
It is hoped that within this volume the historian and researcher will find material on
the major themes of European diplomatic history and international relations. This
volume, however, is concerned only with private papers. The official and governmental
archives for the diplomatic historian are the subject of the invaluable guide produced by
D. H. Thomas and L. Case.2
There are, of course, enormous difficulties in attempting to assemble information on
private papers. The compilers of this volume are only too aware of the limitations of
producing a guide such as this. Most entries were compiled from questionnaires sent to
record offices. The entries in this volume in no way imply that the papers cited are
necessarily available. In all cases research students should write to the institution
concerned to check availability and access. In many cases, record repositories may be
able to provide the researcher with unpublished finding aids and fuller details of
collections of papers in addition to the necessarily often sparse information outlined in
this volume.
There are very major gaps in the private papers available for the diplomatic historian
during this period. The turbulent history of Europe during the last century, with such
events as the Russian Revolution and the Nazi dictatorship, have meant that papers have
either not been kept or have been lost. Police raids, prosecution, exile and banishment
have led to the loss of invaluable material for the historian. This problem is particularly
acute, not just for those countries suffering fascist dictatorship, but also for the countries
of Eastern Europe.
This gap is partly compensated for by the rich holdings of Russian and Eastern
European material in archive centres both in Western Europe and North America.
Particular mention must be made of the holdings in North America at both the Hoover
Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University, California, and also at
Columbia University Library.
Finally, the compilers would appeal to historians and archivists to inform them of any
known additions and changes to the information cited here for use in future editions.
Correspondence should be addressed to Dr Chris Cook, cjo International Archives
Survey, Polytechnic of North London, Prince of Wales Road, Kentish Town, London
NW5 3LB.
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Notes
I. Chris Cook and Geoff Pugh, Sources in European Political History: Vol I: The
European Left (Macmillan, 1987)
2. D. H. Thomas and L. Case, The New Guide to the Diplomatic Archives of Western
Europe.
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